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Alex Katz | |||
| Born
1927 in Brooklyn, NY Lives and works in New York, NY |
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| Coleman Pond II, 1995 | ||||
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paint on canvas 96 x 72 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 1997.3 |
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| Katz uses flat colors, smoothly
brushed surfaces, and highly simplified drawing in his radically stylized
paintings. He presents images in large scale, reminiscent of billboards
and wide-angle filmmaking. His most prolific work has been in figuration
but his landscape paintings reveal a profound interest in nature—especially
the view from the window of his house in Maine, a view that includes Coleman
Pond. In his work, Katz's reference to filmmaking can be seen in his presentation
of movement—the water shimmers in the soft, nighttime illumination. |